# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1856_S299
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.                    299

callings distinct." (L. W. XXI, 1325, 26; cf. Unsch. Nachr. 1715, p. 408.)

After many vexing incidents, Luther at last went so far as to declare
that the consistories — in which men of the governmental estate also
sat, and who there, as the governmental estate, wished to rule through
their jurists*) — should rather be abolished again. He writes: "They
wish to be in the church and to help govern the consciences; that we
will not suffer. We must tear down the consistory; for, in short, we will
not have the jurists and the pope in it. The jurists do not belong in the
ecclesia with their lawsuits; they govern the world only by opinions and
delusions, not by right." (L. W. XXII, 2160.)

In one of the coming issues we intend to communicate, on this subject,
an excerpt from some treatises of Rudelbach that appeared some
years ago in Rudelbach's journal, in which he sets forth the history and
true meaning of the doctrine of the three estates and of the relation of
the magistracy to the church.

(To be continued.)

Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.

(Continued.)

b. In now proceeding to present those polemical works directed
against the Reformed, we name first the following: "Dr. Valentin Ernst
Löscher's detailed Historia Motuum between the Evangelical-Lutherans
and the Reformed." Löscher, the author, is the son of the famous
Caspar Löscher (formerly general superintendent of the electoral district
of Wittenberg), and was born at Sondershausen, where his father
was then still superintendent, in 1673. Already in his nineteenth year,
in 1692, he lectured (Collegia) at the University of Wittenberg, where
he had himself made his own studies up to that point; he did the same
in 1694 at Jena; the following year he became assessor of the philosophical
faculty at Wittenberg, and in 1698 super-

*) A ruinous consequence of the union of civil and governmental power with the
government of the church was also this, that in this way civil matters too came under the
governance of the clergy. Of this Luther writes: "I shudder at the examples of the pope,
who likewise was the first to meddle in this game, and drew such worldly matters to
himself, until at length he became a mere worldly lord over emperor and kings. So I fear
also here, lest the dog should learn, from the little scrap, to eat liver, and be led astray
with good intentions, until at last we too fall back out of the Gospel into mere worldly
squabbles. For where we begin to become judges in matrimonial matters, the cart-wheel
has already caught us by the sleeve, and will drag us on, so that we must judge over
punishment; and if we are to judge over punishment, we must also judge over body and
goods; and there we are indeed pulled down under the wheel and drowned in the flood
of worldly business." (Opp. Tom. X, p. 893.)